Archive for the ‘Networking – VPN’ Category

I resell Draytek routers as I like their feature set and their price is usually 1/4 that of a comparable Cisco, Watchguard or Sonicwall. They have excellent VPN termination features as well as supporting multiple VPN passthrough and enterprise features such as RADIUS authentication on VPN and WiFi, WLAN on WiFI, SSL VPN and basic traffic […]

This issue can cause a RAS server with static IP address to be resolved as another address – if the server is a domain controller this may cause authentication problems, especially errors on Terminal Server logins which results in errors”RPC Server Unavailable” or “Invalid network address” For example, the DC is also an AD, […]

If you are experiencing extermely slow updates from UltraVNC when controlling Vista-class machines, either service or “Single-click” instances, try selecting a non-Aero desktop theme – this will usually restore snappy response. See my post below for two quick ways to disable Aero temorarily http://thesbsguy.com/?p=56

I use a mix of UltraVNC and RDP to remotely control client PC’s – machines running Vista/7/2008 with Aero Themes turned on cause VNC’s responses to be delayed by 10 to 30 seconds – it’s unusable. A quick way to disable Aero themes is to run net stop uxsms as an admin user – when […]

Problem – When connected to a VPN using Windows 7 my DNS resolution uses the remote network’s DNS servers not my local DNS servers; I then gradually lose connection to local resources including Exchange, File shares, DFS etc.. What I do is for any PPTP connections is I set “OBTAIN IP ADDRESS AUTOMATICALLY” as normal, […]

I always have a collection of RAS PPTP dialins on my main workstation – these allow me to connect to client networks to perform remote admin tasks. Sometimes I would like access to this phone book as it’s quicker than creating a VPN connectoid from scratch. While I have a roaming profile on my home network, […]